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Abstract: "The Danish author points out the need for fictitious excitement in masochism. He uses the term 'fictitious' because he means that masochists scarcely are looking for real danger. The active sadomasochist brings the masochist into a border district where dangerous thing easily could happen. But the sadist guides the M safely through. The excitement, the uncertainty, the fright and the joy of terror is essential aspects. Maybe there can be constructed illutions like a scenic railway, in circus or in trick films. It feels and looks very dangerous, but it is in reality quite safe." (Svein Skeid)

Abstract: "Presents a rare case of infantile behavior of a fetishistic nature in an 80-yr-old man that was possibly related to a head injury at the age of 6, when his regression first began. The S's behavior was considered as paraphilic exhibitionism, possibly due to the childhood head injury and perpetuated by his mother's overprotective and infantalizing attitude. Problems with treatment approaches are discussed." (APA/PsycINFO)

Abstract: "There was no sign of a previous organic injury to the spinal cord, and in fact, the history and symptomatology made it doubtful that one had ever been present. The case is one of fetishism of a rare but not unknown variety. The connection is not worked out." (APA/PsycINFO)

Abstract: "A young married man, troubled by the attraction he felt towards girls dressed in mackintoshes, undertook a psychoanalysis. His father had been cold and cruel; his mother - who died when he was 5 - had been warmly loving at times, but domineering at others. A passive homosexual attitude, masochistic and sadistic fantasies of an anal kind, and oral-aggressive trends were revealed in the analysis. The fetishistic interest in mackintoshes expressed all of these underlying problems." (APA/PsycINFO)

Abstract: "In this study, based upon the analysis of two cases of fetishism and observations on a third, the author undertakes to show 'that the necessity to make a defense against an archaic sexual aim is one of the determinants of fetishism - the aim being to kill the love object; to describe the type of situation in which the fixation of this sexual aim occurs; and to make some observations on the form of ego development which accompanies the adoption of this abnormal sexual behavior. Detailed material is cited from one of the case histories to illustrate these various points, and the author concludes 'that the psychology of the fetishist is dominated by castration fear,' and that this fear may be traced 'to infantile situations connected with unusual tension of the aggressive impulses inseparably bound up with sexuality.'" (APA/PsycINFO)

Abstract: "A brief review of the literature with reference to etiology and dynamics of these disorders, a number of case histories of such patients and a discussion of their hospital treatment and management are elaborated. 24 references." (APA/PsycINFO)

[Pea58] Pearson, Angela (i.e. John Millington-Ward), 1958The Whipping Club: An Account of Some of the Activities of a Number of Lovely Women Who Have Men in Their Power

Abstract: "Edited by a French psychoanalyst and containing works mostly by Frenchmen, this collection of stories and essays benefits from the fact that the French often seem to be 100 years ahead of everybody else when it comes to exploring sexual territory." (Russ Kick: "Psychotropedia: A Guide to Publications on the Periphery", 1998.)

Abstract: "This study presents male and female responses of 193 university students to questions about sexual experiences in fantasies. There are few significant gender differences in experiences, but many in fantasies. Males fantasized about sex more and exhibited greater interest in partner variation and in the spectrum from domination to sadism. While male sexuality is often described as aggressive/sadistic and female sexuality as passive/masochistic, most men and women in our population do not report fantasies supporting such stereotypes."

Abstract: "Uses the minutes (rediscovered in 1988) of a 1909 meeting of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association (named 'Wednesday Society' until 1908) as an opportunity to review psychoanalytic literature on this perversion, beginning with Freud. Topics addressed include early-childhood events and trauma that may cause adult fetishism; the reason why the fetishist's world is populated with automata instead of living human beings; possible motives for the fetishist's impaired ability to live and love; and the difference between a fetish and a transitional object. For the fetishist to learn to perceive a fetish as a transitional object that can be discarded and forgotten represents the best hope for a successful psychoanalytic cure." (APA/PsycINFO)

Abstract: "Discusses the etiological significance of the actually observed primal scene in fetishism and other perversions. The effect of the primal scene on the pathology of part object relationships, on self and object image, and on the development of superego structures in perversion is stressed. The primal scene and its internalized, poorly structured bisexual representations make it extremely difficult to establish firm object and self-representations. 4 illustrative psychoanalytic case summaries are presented." (APA/PsycINFO)

Abstract: From the cover: "Masochism has typically been defined as a 'sexual perversion' and lumped together with such harmful nonconsensual practices as pedophilia and bestiality. But in this subversive work, Anita Phillips turns the tables and intelligently rescues masochism from these assumptions and the clinical discourses that have dismissed it as a sickness. In examining these issues, she asks: Is the masochist really a victim or a clever manipulator? What if the masochist really likes himself well enough to undergo being despised? In posing such provocative questions, Phillips challenges many tenets of feminism and psychoanalysis and introduces controversial ideas about perversion and perversity that challenge the legacy of traditional sexology."

Abstract: "Treated a 27-yr-old male for fetishism with masochism by electrical aversion and aversion relief on a twice/day basis for 8 days. To increase heterosexual responsiveness, sexual retraining was combined with the above procedure. After this active treatment, the patient was discharged from hospital to continue sexual retraining exercises at home for 1 mo. The latency to imagine the deviant fantasies and to evoke sexual arousal while fingering his fetishistic objects increased progressively as the treatment evolved. At 1-and 3-mo follow-ups, S reported that his masochistic and fetishistic fantasies had completely disappeared, and at a 4-mo follow-up, he considered his sexual problems solved. Improvement was maintained 1 yr after treatment." (APA/PsycINFO)

Abstract: "The authors discuss aspects of the decision-making process for including 'new' diagnostic categories in DSM-IV. They detail the different kinds of new categories proposed for inclusion in DSM-IV and discuss the risks and benefits of incorporating them. The authors comment on whether new diagnostic categories should be included in official nosologies as a stimulus for research or as a culmination of research. They also highlight problems with 'sunsetting' diagnoses. The criteria for change in DSM-IF - a way to deal with the expanding array of proposals for additional diagnostic entrities - are discussed. The authors also offer a series of specific examples of the different kinds of new categories being considered for inclusion in DSM-IV."

Abstract: "Argues that the traditional approaches to sexual deviations-biological and psychogenetic-are either too simple, too global, or not in accord with empirical findings. A new theoretical approach is presented which is based on ethology and the theory of automata and which considers deviations as impairments of instinctive behavior. General characteristics of instincts are discussed and viewed as finite automata, and the existence of human as well as subhuman imprinting is noted. A formal model of deviations, based on the structural theory of automata and including both fetishistic and nonfetishistic types, is demonstrated." (APA/PsycINFO)

Abstract: Glenn Wilson: "Václav Pinkava outlines some observations of he and his Czechoslovakian colleagues that led him to apply the mathematical theory of logical nets to sexual variation. Consistent with other authors in this volume (especially Comfort, Epstein and myself), he believes that distortions of innate and imprinted patterns of behaviour are an important basis of paraphilia and goes on to show how these can be modelled by computer."

Abstract: "Evaluated whether there are any demographic variables or comorbid sexual disorders that distinguish Ss with telephone scatologia (TS) from Ss with other paraphilias (PAs) and paraphilia-related disorders (PRDs). The authors explored the comorbid relationship among PA and PRD groups to assess whether a particular PA or PRD was statistically significantly associated with the TS group. Data were collected prospectively from 206 consecutively evaluated outpatient males (mean aged 15-69 yrs) referred to a psychiatrist. Ss completed an Intake Questionnaire that gathered demographic data. Lifetime sexual diagnoses were assessed using a structured Sexual Inventory and confirmed by psychiatric interview. Findings of greater numbers of associated PAs and PRDs and significant comorbid association with voyeurism, compulsive masturbation, phone sex dependence, and trend association with exhibitionism add to the growing body of empirically based research characterizing TS. Ss in the TS sample did not limit their sexual impulsivity to obscene telephone calling. Rather, they had greater numbers of multiple lifetime deviant and non deviant sexual impulsivity disorders even when compared to other paraphiliacs."